35.1% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.0%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Warrawong · Suburb / Locality
Language in Warrawong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people speak a language other than English in Warrawong than in most similar areas. Around 35.1% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes it a linguistically diverse pocket of the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 56.2% of people, Italian is the most common second language at 5.2%. About 10.6% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
10.6% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Warrawong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14185/warrawong/topic/language